Is history fiction?
It is thought that William Shakespeare based his character, Gloucester, upon a history generally attributed to Thomas Moore. Modern historians claim even the infamous hunched back and gammy arm to be fabrications. In 1997 three justices of the United States Supreme Court found that there was not enough evidence to convict Richard III of the murders of the Princes in the Tower. Yet, these possible fictions are generally accepted facts.
Like the supposition around the life of Shakespeare himself the answers to such questions are too buried in time for an absolute truth to ever become known. However, even through veils of time the human questions and repercussions of self-serving political gain and barbarous action do ring true and do cut deep. Still today, blood is hot and we are in it. Still today, sin will pluck on sin. The truth is still in there!
This work continues Anna Tregloan’s series of installed works, founded on a principle that the audience that greets us as artists seeks and discovers, not as a homogenous mass, but through individual pathways. Embracing complexity, the work offers up information as a collage of visuals, physical dynamics and sound along with spoken and written text.
ANNA TREGLOAN
Anna Tregloan’s unique work has received public and critical acclaim. Recent creations include the performance installations BLACK (presented at Malthouse Theatre, nominated for Best Production, New Work, Greenroom Awards, 2007), Contemptuous Perplexity (presented at Chunky Move Studio), The Long Slow Death of a Porn Star (presented at Hush Hush), Skin Flick (nominated for a Greenroom award for Innovation in Form) which placed the audience at the performers feet and Mach an aerial performance within a kinetic sculpture staged at the Melbourne Museum as part of the 2000 Melbourne International Festival. She also co-created Sleeping Beauty for Malthouse Theatre.
As designer of staging and costumes for dance, theatre and circus and as creator of her own work, Anna Tregloan has collaborated with a large number and eclectic mix of companies. Her work has toured to all Australian Capitals along with work showing in Paris, New York, Prague, London, Edinburgh, Kyoto, Malaysia and other international stages.
Thirteen of her designs have been nominated for Victorian Green Room Association awards and five have been awarded. She has also won a Helpmann award for Best Design. Her devised works have been nominated for Best Production and Innovation in form. In 2006 she was awarded the prestigious John Truscott Award for Excellence in Design.
She has a Masters by Research in Animateuring at the University of Melbourne, Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts. Anna spent two years as a resident artist at Malthouse Theatre and two as an Artistic Associate of the Storeroom Theatre Workshop.
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